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Re^2: Idiomatic Perl?

by thenextfart (Novice)
on Mar 21, 2018 at 13:23 UTC ( [id://1211418]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Idiomatic Perl?
in thread Idiomatic Perl?

        But why not ;-)        
Because: most of the benefits learnt while learning a postmodern language such as Perl are lost when we try to implement modern languages like Python. Also, whitespace is starting to appear in my dreams.

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Re^3: Idiomatic Perl?
by haukex (Archbishop) on Mar 21, 2018 at 15:00 UTC

    stevieb is right, I wasn't being (entirely) serious. Modules in the Acme:: namespace are generally meant to be tongue-in-cheek, silly, and/or not for production use. I also gave that example to show off some of the power of Perl, in this case its ability to rewrite source code on the fly.

      I get it. Meta programming is cool. (btw that's why I came to perl in the first place)
Re^3: Idiomatic Perl?
by stevieb (Canon) on Mar 21, 2018 at 13:47 UTC

    I do believe haukex may have been being facetious (although I could be wrong).

    Also, whitespace is starting to appear in my dreams

    haukex pointed out one Acme module, so here's another for your whitespace dreams: Acme::Bleach ;)

    By the way, I completely agree with your reply about coding in one language while trying to retain and use the particulars of another.

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